Quote Originally Posted by Camillvs View Post
Boys, my Polish Brothers. I beg you. No double hussar wings! It's a myth that hussars used such wings like your "winged hussar late". The hussars armors that can be in Museum of Polish Army have false wings added in XVIII/XIX century...

Guys, of course some kind of wing appeared from time to time, but they weren't added to armors, rather to saddle, but as you've noticed such wings appeared also at Tatars' saddles. And there should be some feathers on hussar helmets. This would be realistic, but it's your mod

There are some many myths in our history like cavalry charging German tanks (invented by German and communist propaganda), huge hussar wings etc.
While I don't know Polish, from what I've heard I have to disagree with you. It seems from what I've read that there is some controversy of just when the wings were worn, what purposes did they serve, etc.

However, I do know as Sobieski's forces marched on their way to Vienna, a monk noticed the hussars "each with two eagle wings…parading as they marched," and in the Osprey book on Polish Hussar, Brzezinski cites Kitowicz's observation that the Lithuanian hussars still kept to the old saddle-mounts. So I think there's plausible historical grounds that the Sobieski-era hussar of said hetman/king's revival of the unit. That Polish artists of the 19th and 20th centuries retconned it to times before that is another story. :)